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Jim Crowley
President and CEO
Jim Crowley is Turbine's president and CEO. He brings a wealth of operational experience to Turbine and is responsible both for the vision and the day-to-day operations of the Company. Prior to joining Turbine, Jim spent three years as Chief Operating Officer of m-Qube, Inc which he helped turn into one of North America's largest mobile media companies.
Jim also spent eight years as the Chief Operating Officer of Network Plus, Inc., one of the country's largest publicly traded competitive telecommunications and data providers. Crowley is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Connecticut College.
Beau Paradowski
Chief Financial Officer
Beau is an experienced financial veteran whose exceptional operational skills along with extensive M & A and capital markets experience have been the key driver of the success of a wide range of technology and media organizations including Optasite, Clearwire Technologies and Clear Channel Communications. Beau is a proven leader with background in public accounting, financial analysis/reporting, strategic planning and systems implementation.
Christopher Dyl
Chief Technology Officer
Chris Dyl joined the Company in April 1995 as Turbine's first employee. Considered a pioneer of the industry, his vision of massively multiplayer online role-playing games and the technology behind them has propelled Chris Dyl to the most senior ranks of the game development community.
Today, he serves as the Chief Technology Officer and is the primary architect of Turbine's technology platform, including the state-of-the-art graphics, console, networking, and large-scale world-creation technologies. Chris leads the development team who enhances those systems and researches the next-generation of online technologies in order to ensure Turbine maintains its technology edge.
Prior to Turbine, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied physics, computer science, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering.
Jan Robert Horsfall
Chief Marketing Officer
Jan joined Turbine in early 2009 and is responsible for driving global sales and marketing for all of Turbine’s franchises. Jan brings a wealth of marketing and executive leadership experience to Turbine including roles at leading consumer and merchant brand organizations in the Internet, Energy, Telecom and Retail industries.
Prior to joining Turbine, Jan served as the founder and CEO of several companies including Gelazzi, Inc.®, White Summit Strategies, Inc.™ and Gemini Voice Solutions, Inc.® Jan served as Vice President of Marketing for Lycos, Inc.®, one of the largest and most profitable internet companies with a consumer base of over 40 million monthly visitors. Lycos, which to this day represents the fastest IPO in the history of NASDAQ, was sold to the Spanish conglomerate Terra Networks S.A.® in 1999 for $7.5 billion. In his role as Vice President of Consumer Brand Strategy at The Valvoline Company® he helped lead widespread organizational and strategic changes which saw the venerable company move from the #5 market share position to the #2 position globally.
Horsfall sits on the boards of ConcealFab, LLC® and the Colorado Springs Tech Incubator™, as well as the Colorado State University Alumni Association. He’s been distinguished with the Honorable Alumni Award at CSU.
Jan is a graduate of Colorado State University with an Executive Letter from the University of Indiana.
Nate Jones
Vice President of Corporate and Business Development
Nate brings a world of deal making experience to Turbine's corporate and business development initiatives. Nate was most recently Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Glu Mobile – a top three mobile game publisher. While at Glu, Nate's drove the acquisitions of Mig and Superscape as well as initiatives focused on the iPhone and other non mobile platforms. Prior to his tenure at Glu, Nate was a Vice President at Lazard, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory firms where he focused on technology and media M & A and advised both established and emerging organizations in the video games industry including Microsoft, EA, Jagex and Major League Gaming, among others.
Craig Alexander
Vice President of Product Development
Craig Alexander joined Turbine in 2007 as the Vice President of Product Development and oversees the development and production of all of Turbine's franchises including The Lord of the Rings Online™, Dungeons & Dragons Online™, Asheron's Call®, and all future projects. Craig brings over twenty years of engineering and studio general management experience to Turbine.
Most recently, he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of Z-Axis, an Activision studio. In this role, he managed the development of multiple console titles, including the 2006 X-Men game. Previously, he was Vice President and Executive Producer for Electronic Arts Partners, managing a portfolio of externally developed PC and console titles ranging from licensed movie games to new intellectual property, and Vice President of Online for Electronic Arts' Westwood Studios in Las Vegas managing EA's MMORPG Earth & Beyond. Prior to Electronic Arts, he was General Manager for Sierra Online's original development studio near Yosemite National Park, shipping numerous titles and overseeing Sierra's entry into the MMORPG segment.
Craig graduated from the University of Southern California with a BSEE in Computer Engineering and received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
Jerome Lalin
Vice President of Marketing
Jerome Lalin joined Turbine in September 2006. As VP of Marketing, he leads the market, product and consumer strategy for Turbine and its franchises.
Jerome brings over 15 years of broad international executive marketing and management experience with media businesses in start-up, turnaround and high-growth situations.
Prior to joining Turbine, Jerome was a Vice President at Houghton Mifflin Company where he was in charge of the marketing and development of the K-12 education testing division. Previously, as a VP of Marketing for Vivendi Games in Europe and Sr. VP and General Manager for Vivendi Games in the US, he has published, marketed and distributed over 400 games titles including brands like Blizzard, Sierra, Knowledge Adventure and Davidson in more than 10 countries.
He received his MBA from the ESSEC Business School in Paris, France.
Ken Surdan
Vice President of Operations
Ken joined Turbine in 2008 and is responsible for leading Operations at Turbine. Ken brings over 15 years of experience in driving high-growth companies by building world-class technology and operational teams. Ken has a strong record of accomplishment from large public companies to venture backed startups. His previous roles include TripAdvisor Media Network, where he was the Senior Vice President for Technology; SmartBargains.com, where he was Chief Operating Officer responsible for all service, operations and technology for a high growth online retailer, and National Leisure Group, an online travel company, where as CTO Ken grew the business and technology platform enabling growth from $80M to $900M. Ken brings a passion for the customer, and an extensive ecommerce and consumer facing operations background to the Turbine leadership team.
Ken earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University and an MBA from Babson College.
Stephanie Curtis
Vice President, Human Resources
Stephanie joined Turbine in 2008 and is responsible for driving the Human Resources function at Turbine. Prior to joining the Company, Stephanie was the HR Director at Innoveer Solutions, a global software consulting firm, where she managed their global Human Resources operations, including recruiting, training, rewards & recognition programs and employee relations. Other experiences include senior HR roles at LODESTAR Corporation, Infinium and Safety 1st.
Stephanie is certified by the Society of Human Resources Management at the SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) and the GPHR (Global HR Professional) level. Stephanie holds an MBA from Simmons Graduate School of Management.
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